scholarly journals The isolation of an unclassified virus from an outbreak of infantile diarrhoea

1964 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 425-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. M. Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Cultured Cells ◽  
New South ◽  
Personal Communication ◽  
The United States ◽  
Director General ◽  
Tissue Cultures ◽  
Human Origin ◽  
Infantile Diarrhoea ◽  
South Wales ◽  
State Psychiatric

A virus was isolated from fifteen of nineteen children living in an infants' home during an outbreak of diarrhoea. The virus possesses many of the characteristics of the enterovirus group but is serologically distinct from any of the accepted members of this group. It is non-pathogenic for unweaned mice, non-cytopathic in tissue cultures of monkey kidney, but is rapidly cytopathic for tissue-cultured cells of human origin. It is serologically similar to virus Hu 659 isolated by Abrahams in the United States (personal communication).I should like to thank the Director-General of Public Health and State Psychiatric Services, New South Wales, for permission to publish.

Forum Non Conveniens and Antisuit Injunctions: An Update

1998 ◽  
Vol 92 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-43
Author(s):  
Andreas F. Lowenfeld
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
New South ◽  
Product Liability ◽  
Federal Court ◽  
The United States ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Forum Non Conveniens ◽  
Court Of First Instance

In the April 1997 issue of the Journal, I reported on three cases in which the response to an action brought in the court of one country led not to an answer, but to a countersuit in another country—for an antisuit injunction, a declaration of nonliability or both. One of the cases I discussed arose out of a controversy between an asbestos manufacturer, CSR, and a group of insurance companies, the Cigna Group, that may or may not have been obligated to defend and indemnify the manufacturer in respect of claims in the United States for product liability. The manufacturer brought suit in federal court in New Jersey, raising both contract and antitrust claims. The insurers, as I reported, succeeded in securing an antisuit injunction in the Supreme Court of New South Wales (a court of first instance), and thereafter in defeating a motion by the manufacturer to stay or dismiss, on grounds of forum non conveniens, the insurers’ action seeking a declaration of nonliability. I thought that outcome was wrong: in my view, the Australian court should not have stepped into the controversy, and the insurers should have brought their challenge to the jurisdiction and suitable venue of the New Jersey court in that court.

Heavy metal contents of soils and plants adjacent to the Hume Highway near Marulan, New South Wales

1975 ◽  
Vol 15 (74) ◽  
pp. 414 ◽  
Author(s):  
DJ David ◽  
CH Williams
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metal ◽  
Zinc Oxide ◽  
Heavy Metal Contamination ◽  
New South ◽  
Health Hazard ◽  
The United States ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Metal Contents ◽  
Cadmium And Lead ◽  
Relative Purity

HCL-extractable zinc, lead, cadmium and copper in soils as well as concentrations of these elements in bracken (Pteridium esculentum) were found to decrease along four leeward traverses at right angles to the Hume Highway near Marulan. Similar results were obtained for the above-ground portions of rye corn (Secale cereale) grown in a glasshouse on soils collected along one of these traverses. Zinc accession is similar to, but cadmium and lead accessions are considerably lower than, those observed by other workers in the United States probably owing in the case of cadmium to the use of purer zinc oxide in Australian tyre manufacture and in the case of lead to smaller cars and a smaller proportion of vehicles operating on leaded fuel. Zinc and cadmium analyses of Australian and foreign tyres confirmed the relative purity of the zinc oxide used in the manufacture of tyres in Australia. No serious health hazard appears to arise from heavy metal contamination of roadside soils and vegetation by vehicular traffic on the Hume Highway.

Middle Miocene fossil grasses from Fort Ternan, Kenya

1993 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel P. Dugas ◽  
Gregory J. Retallack
Keyword(s):  
Middle Miocene ◽  
New South ◽  
Single Species ◽  
The United States ◽  
Low Fertility ◽  
Fossil Species ◽  
Southeastern Australia ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Fourth Species ◽  
Dry Woodland

At the well-known fossil mammal locality of Fort Ternan in southwestern Kenya, radiometrically dated at about 14 million years old (middle Miocene), fossil grasses have been preserved by nephelinitic sandstone in place of growth above a brown paleosol (type Onuria clay). Large portions of grass plants as well as fragments of leaves have revealed details of silica bodies, stomates, and other taxonomically important features under the scanning electron microscope. The computer database for grass identification compiled by Leslie Watson and colleagues was used to determine the most similar living grass genera to the five distinct kinds of fossil found. Two of the fossil species are assigned to Cleistochloa kabuyis sp. nov. and C. shipmanae sp. nov. This genus includes one species from low fertility dry woodland soils of New South Wales and Queensland and a second species from “raw clay soils” in western New Guinea. A third fossil species, represented by a large portion of a branching culm, is assigned to Stereochlaena miocenica sp. nov. This genus includes five species of low-fertility woodland soils in southeastern Africa. Both Cleistochloa and Stereochlaena are in the supertribe Panicanae of the subfamily Panicoideae. A fourth species is assigned to Distichlis africana sp. nov. and provides a biogeographic link between the single species of this genus now living in coastal grasslands in southeastern Australia and the 12 species of dunes and deserts found throughout the Americas from Patagonia and the West Indies to the United States and Canada. A fifth species is, like D. africana, in the subfamily Chloridoideae, but its stomata were not seen and it could belong to Cyclostachya, Pogoneura, or Polevansia. This earliest known wooded grassland flora in Africa is taxonomically unlike the modern grass flora of fertile volcanic African landscapes, and may have been recruited from an archaic grass flora of Gondwanan desert and lateritic soils.

Regular classroom practices with gifted students in Grades 3 and 4 in New South Wales, Australia

1997 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Whitton
Keyword(s):  
Independent Schools ◽  
Classroom Practices ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Gifted Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gifted Children ◽  
Regular Classroom ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Talented Students

The Regular Classroom Practices Survey (RCPS) was conducted to determine the extent to which gifted and talented students received differentiated education in the regular classroom across New South Wales. This research paralleled work recently completed in the United States of America. The survey focused on information on the teachers, their classrooms and regions. Classroom practices, in relation to the curriculum modifications for gifted and average students, were analyzed. The survey sample was drawn from the three sectors of education, Government, Catholic and Independent schools, within the ten regions of New South Wales. This included 401 third and fourth grade teachers in government schools, 138 teachers in Catholic schools and 67 teachers in independent schools. The research questions that guided this study were: (1) Do teachers modify the curriculum content to meet the needs of gifted students? (2) Do teachers modify their instructional practices for gifted students? (3) Are there any organizational variations in planning to meet the educational needs of gifted children? (4) Are there differences in the types of regular classroom services provided for gifted students in relation to the type of school or region?

A Note on the Specific Identity of Trichostrongylus longispicularis Gordon, 1933

1956 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. I. Sommerville
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Single Male ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Specific Identity

The nematode Trichostrongylus longispicularis was described by Gordon (1933) from a single male recovered from a sheep in New South Wales. Gordon considered that the male of this species could be readily distinguished from the males of other species of the genus recorded from ruminants by an asymmetrical dorsal ray of the bursa and by the length and form of the spicules. The dorsal ray is described as being bifid, one bifurcation being simple and the other possessing secondary branches, one situated internally and the other externally. The slender spicules were 184·6 microns long, and terminated in fine sickle-shaped structures.Andrews (1934 and 1935) recorded the species from cattle in the United States. In his first description (Andrews, 1934) he noted that his specimens agreed very closely with the description published by Gordon (1933), but he referred to hook-like projections on the spicules. However, he failed to find these projections in the specimen discussed in his record of 1935. As he made no reference to the dorsal ray of the bursa, it is presumed that this agreed with the description and figure published by Gordon (1933). T. longispicularis was subsequently reported by Roberts (1938 and 1939) from cattle in Queensland, but no comments were made on its morphology.

scholarly journals Introduction—Atomic and Electron Fluids

1996 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Mukunda P Das ◽  
David Neilson
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Theoretical Physics ◽  
Physical Sciences ◽  
South Wales ◽  
National University ◽  
The University

This volume contains the lectures given at the fourth international Gordon Godfrey workshop held at the University of New South Wales in Sydney from 26 to 28 September 1994. This time our lecturers came from Germany, Italy, Japan, the United States and Vietnam, as well as of course from Australia. There was a total of seventeen lectures. The workshops are jointly organised by the School of Physics at the University of New South Wales and the Department of Theoretical Physics, Research School of Physical Sciences at the Australian National University and are held annually at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Each workshop concentrates on a different and novel research area of current interest in condensed matter physics. The late Gordon Godfrey was an Associate Professor of Physics at the University of New South Wales who bequeathed his estate for the promotion and the teaching of theoretical physics within the university.

Issues in Testing

1985 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-12
Author(s):  
Marion M. de Lemos
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
The United States ◽  
Primary Schooling ◽  
General Ability ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Individual Assessment ◽  
Other Information ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Teaching Programs

The issue of tests and testing has recently become the subject of public debate in New South Wales. This issue is of course not new, and has been the subject of much controversy, particularly in the United States, over the last thirty years or more.In New South Wales the issue has surfaced over the use of standardized tests of general ability in the last year of primary schooling. These tests are applied routinely in State schools to all students in Year 6 as part of the normal school assessment program. The purpose of the testing, as stated by the Department, is to obtain a measure of the student's general reasoning ability to supplement other information on the student's school attainments. This information, it is argued, can be used by the class teacher or the resource teacher to plan appropriate teaching programs for individual children, and to identify children who may have special needs, or who should be referred to the school counsellor for further individual assessment.

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